White House Uses Poetry to Attack Immigration
I'll be honest, I didn't think this White House would be the poetry-quoting type. I was wrong. We get poetry in text and as background sound to a video of migrant arrests.
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President Trump Plays the Blame Game
Once again, President Trump is out here playing the blame game. In a post on Truth Social, he writes: "Crooked Joe Biden, Mayorkas, and so-called “Border Czar” Kamala Harris really screwed our Country by letting anyone and everyone come in totally unchecked and unvetted!"
Immigration operation coming to New Orleans and Louisiana
Border officers are expected to launch an immigration operation today in southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi. The operation is dubbed “Swamp Sweep.” The Los Angeles Times describes the operation as "aim[ing] to arrest 5,000 people[,] is centered in liberal New Orleans and is the latest federal immigration
The Weaponization of Migrant Detention for Private Profits
Guest blogger: law student, University of San Francisco The United States may detain and deport noncitizens who participate in criminal acts, are a threat to public safety or violate their visa.[1] Generally, deportation proceedings should involve access to a fair hearing, humane detention during initial proceedings, and safe removal
Immigration Article of the Day: Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence by Eric Fish and Doug Keller
Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence by Eric Fish and Doug Keller Abstract In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel declared that it is a federal crime simply to be an undocumented immigrant. But Congress has enacted no such crime. Congress has made it a crime, codified
White House Annotates Pres. Trump's Thanksgiving Message
Yesterday, Kevin shared President Trump's Thanksgiving message. The White House repeated the message, but with highlighting, emphasizing the following bits: "I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal
Analysis of the Trump administration's suit to end in-state fees for some California students
Adam Echelman and Mikhail Zinshteyn for CalMatters analyzes the Trump administration's lawsuit against California seeking to end its policies allowing students without legal status to pay in-state tuition and financial aid at state colleges and universities. Their conclusion: "the administration’s legal argument is weak, according to
Happy Thanksgiving from President Trump
A Thanksgiving message from President Trump on Truth Social: A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries
Immigration Article of the Day: The Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement by Noah Smith-Drelich
The Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement by Noah Smith-Drelich, 119 Nw. U. L. Rev. 811 (2025) Abstract There is a powerful fundamental right hiding in plain sight: the fundamental right to free movement. This right goes beyond the consistently acknowledged—though infrequently applied—fundamental right to interstate travel. The
Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protected Status for Citizens of Burma and Haiti
Our immigration agencies have been hard at work this week. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the end of temporary protected status (TPS) for citizens in Burma and Haiti. TPS recipients from these countries will now be subject to removal despite dangers in their homelands. The Trump administration has been systematically
Trump administration pauses immigration of Afghans after National Guard shooting
CBS News reports that U.S. immigration authorities have announced that they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in a shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a
As ICE raids increase, some LA immigrants leave the country "voluntarily"
News from Los Angeles, one site of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign. Immigration lawyers and experts across Los Angeles County report anecdotal increases in people seeking to either return to their country of origin or obtain second citizenship in countries where they have familial ties. A number